Şemsa Özar, a Turkish academic and professor in the Department of Economics at Boğaziçi University, died on February 3, 2026, in Istanbul, Turkey, after a long illness.
Born in İzmir on March 15, 1954, she earned her degree and master’s degree from Boğaziçi University, completed postgraduate study at the Institute for Advanced Studies and Scientific Research in Vienna, and received her PhD from the Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien in 1990. She served as president of the International Association for Feminist Economics from 2015 to 2016.
Şemsa Özar (Þemsa Özar; 15 March 1954 – February 2026) was a Turkish academic who was a professor of the Department of Economics at Boğaziçi University, Turkey. She served as president of the International Association for Feminist Economics from 2015 to 2016.